2009/9/9 ornamentalmind <[email protected]>: > of consciousness. So…here I ask you to become a true skeptic and > examine very closely the things you see and feel. What is the nature > of a table? Does it exist? How do we know a table is a table? Does a > table ever change what it is? Etc.
How do we share concepts of items such as rocks or tables or trees or other things that we all experience in a shared way? I have formed the following opinion... We use approximation and synthesization. As long as we can approximate in our reality the perceptions that fit the feedback about the same object as others describe in their reality then we can agree that we are sharing an experience of the same object. This is easy with physical objects but becomes more problematic with other types of objects. The hierarchy is: 1: Auto-psychological objects (the self). 2: Physical objects. 3: Hetero-psychological objects (other 'selfs'). 4: Cultural objects. The further we get from #1 the more abstract and difficult approximation and synthesization becomes. Cultural objects (such as gods and philosophical concepts) are the most divergent while physical objects (such as rocks and tables and chairs) are the least. > How could he come to find that emptiness is the ultimate cosmology? Because at its base that is what it is, either at a quantum level or as the sum of all mass and all gravity in our universe (E=0). > Why would you not agree with him? That would depend what is meant by 'ultimate'. If it is meant that we 'rise to' it, then no. If it is meant that we 'rise from it', then yes. Although I am equating emptiness with nothingness here... All that is something comes from nothing. Now, the problem is with nothing which many physicists don't believe exists. There is always something even if it is the 'spooky' responses (energy of some sort not understood at all) between vastly separated quantum particles. Why is there something instead of nothing? Because something is more stable. What has been thought of as nothing is simply a curve of space-time in a quantum vacuum that possesses an unimaginable amount of energy. Occasionally this energy creates a bulge in the space-time curve and a bubble breaks free and often becomes a new universe (but that is for another thread). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
